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Pike Lake, Wisconsin

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Reid town. It stands on Rice Lake Creek. The Survey maps it on the Mission Lake quadrangle. It stands 1,250 feet above sea level.

Pike Lake within Marathon County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 9 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

67 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 67 fires within 5 miles of Pike Lake between 1992 and 2020, burning about 73 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 4 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning17
Equipment and vehicle use17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Recreation and ceremony5
Other causes4
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Arson/incendiarism4
Smoking2
Fireworks2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Natural1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
3 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 September 2004Debris and open burning2.9 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 July 2006Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 July 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 July 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesGUINEA HEN
1 July 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 June 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesMISSION LAKE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marathon County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Pike Lake: 5 past producers, 3 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Brinkman PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Comet Creek Gravel Deposit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Hatley Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Hatley Gravel Pit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
M Lapinski Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Spranger Creek Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Spranger Creek Sand Pit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Spranger Creek Sand Pit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Walter Haupt Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence

Every working recorded in Marathon County

Storms near this place

2 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pike Lake in 2 storm reports between 1997 and 2002: 2 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 1997Thunderstorm WindPike Lake$250,000no account filed
April 2002Thunderstorm WindPike Lake-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Marathon County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Bevent4.1 miles9
Hatley4.6 miles9
Ingersoll5.3 miles9
Little Eau Claire5.6 miles9
Ringle6.2 miles9
Elderon6.2 miles7
Norrie6.8 miles9
Holt7.3 miles7

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on Pike LakeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7193587The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1845225. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.